Ana Sebastian, reads with Jo from her novel and meets Papa Sakho. Ana is a writer migrating between Buenos Aires and Amsterdam. She lived 15 years in Amsterdam, and then moved back to Buenos Aires 15 years ago. Home is where you are also not at home anymore.. E.g. in de Kinkerbuurt. (various languages)
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Tags: Blauwe Huis · IJburg · Senegal · art · migrant · presentation · ruisriet
On Dutch TV the news program NOVA spoke with a guard who reveals the violence and humiliation of innocent detainees in Dutch detention centers for undocumented migrants. You can see it here.
Mohamed Boumedine appears in front of the prison boat in Rotterdam, where he started his hungerstrike after the death of an inmate in february. [...]
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Tags: IJburg · Schiphol · ruisriet
In Italy Berlusconi turns illegals into criminals. The maximum sentence is 4 years. Meanwhile in the USA a similar shift to criminilazie migrants seems to be making headway.
300 hard working people who never committed a crime were arrested and given 5 months prison sentences. Their crime: being poor, coming from a country impoverished by the [...]
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Tags: Senegal · migrant · news · raid